Wherefore He says in Hosea, ???I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me,??? (Ho 12:9, and Ho 13:4;) because He had then especially acquired them to Himself as His peculiar people; and He speaks even more clearly a little before, ???when Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.??? (Ho 11:1.) Now, although it was common to the race